Word: wolper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Follow the Girls (book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis; lyrics & music by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal and Phil Charig; produced by Dave Wolper) has a number of virtues and two faults-its music and its book. Since the two mean hardly less to musicomedy than mountains and lakes mean to Switzerland, Follow the Girls falls short of perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie...
...Follow the Girls," Dave Wolper's new musical comedy at the Shubert Theatre, has all the trimmings of a good show; yet viewed a an entity it hardly approaches the rare standard of entertainment perfection. A slap-happy public will probably clasp "Follow the Girls" to its collective breast and acclaim it as "grand entertainment...
...extravaganza is Mr. Wolper's first venture in the producing field and it should teach him not to listen to the Broadway theorists who claim that all you need for a hit these days is a couple of name stars, lavish, sets and costumes, and unusual lighting effects...